Troubled England all-rounder Ben Stokes, R Ashwin in marquee list for IPL

Ben Stokes and Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin are among a 16 marquee players for a IPL Players’ Auction in Bangalore on Jan 27 and 28

Ben Stokes
Ben Stokes

Troubled England all-rounder Ben Stokes and Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin are among a 16 marquee players for a IPL Players’ Auction in Bangalore on Jan 27 and 28. Australian speedster Mitchell Starc and England captain Joe Root are also among a tip foreigners who will be underneath a hammer. Root’s entrance in a marquee list is an denote that a England and Wales Cricket Board has finally accepted what their players want.

Stokes was privileged to play for England again on Wednesday notwithstanding being charged with affray. He was progressing dangling by a ECB for his impasse in an occurrence outward a nightclub in September. While some-more than 1000 players had purebred for a auctions, a BCCI has pruned a list to 578 players. The players have been bracketed into 8 graphic slabs as per their profiles. The slabs for internationals (Indian and foreign) are Rs 2 crore, Rs 1.5 crore, Rs 1 crore, Rs 75 lakh and R50 lakh respectively while uncapped players are base-priced during Rs 40, 30 and 20 lakh respectively.

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